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When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
our West Coast became a potential combat

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zone living in that zone

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or more than a hundred thousand persons
of Japanese ancestry two thirds of them

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American citizens one third Alien we know

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that some among them were protected
by a dangerous most reliable

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but no one knew what would happen
among this concentrated population.

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If Japanese forces should try to invade
our shores military authorities therefore

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determined that all of them.

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Citizens

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and aliens alike would have come up with
this picture tells how the mass migration

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was accomplished. Neither the our main

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or the War Relocation Authority
relish the idea of taking men women

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and children from their homes
their shops and their farms.

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So the military

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and civilian agencies alike determined
to do the job as a democracy shut.

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With real consideration for the people
in the first attention was given to the

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problems of sabotage and has been up.

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Now here in San Francisco for example
convoys were being made up with insight a

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possible exit stage for
the remark Japanese

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and not censored in any other area.

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Nearby San Pedro houses

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and hotels occupied almost exclusively by
Japanese were within a stone's throw of a

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naval air base shipyard. Well.

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Japanese special men had every opportunity
to watch the movement of our ships

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Japanese farmers were living
close to vital aircraft

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but some of the First them all Japanese
were required to move from critical areas

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such as these

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but of course this limited evacuation was
a solution to only part of the problem

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the larger problem.

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The uncertainty about what happened among
these people in case of a Japanese

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invasion still remains

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that is why the commanding general of
the Western Defense Command determined

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that all Japanese within the
coastal area should move in.

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Immediately the army began
mapping evacuation areas

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and for a time encourage the Japanese
to leave voluntarily troubled by the

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voluntary evacuation threatened
in their new location.

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So the program was quickly put on a plan

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and then protected makes their act
to the American citizen Japanese

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and Japanese aliens made their plans
in accordance with Army order.

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Notices were posted all persons of Japanese
descent were required to register.

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They gathered in their own churches

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and schools in the Japanese themselves
cheerfully handled the enormous paperwork

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involved in the migration civilian positions
made preliminary medical examination

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government agencies helped in a hundred
ways they helped the evacuees find tenants

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for their farms. They helped businessmen
lease sell or start their property.

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Let's say it was financed by the government
with quick disposal of property often

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involves financial sacrifice
from the evacuee.

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Now the actual migration got underway.

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The Army provided plates of land
to transport household belongings.

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The buses to move the people to assembly got
the evacuees cooperated wholeheartedly.

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The many law among them don't. But
this was a sacrifice they could make.

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In behalf of America's war effort.

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It's not towns as well as large up

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and down the coast moving continue.

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Behind them. They left the shop.

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Went home

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and occupied for many years to

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their trashing fleet or
impounded and left under guard.

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Now they were taken to racetracks in
fairgrounds where the army almost overnight

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had built a family.

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They lived here until new Pioneer communities
could be completed on federally owned

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lands in the interior. Satiny
the racetrack for example.

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Suddenly became a community of
about seventeen thousand person.

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The Army provided housing plenty
of helpful nourishing food for all

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the residents of the new communities set
about developing a way of life as nearly

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normal as possible. They help church services
Protestants Catholics and Buddhists.

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They should their own newspaper
organize nursery schools

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and some made camouflage nets
for the United States Army.

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Meanwhile in Arizona Utah Colorado Wyoming

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and elsewhere quarters were being built
where they would have an opportunity to

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work more space in which to live. When
word came that these new homes were ready.

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The final movement began.

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And the three locations

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that are back a ways were met by an advance
contention of Japanese would arrive

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some days earlier and who
now act in disguise.

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Naturally the newcomers looked
about with some curiosity.

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They were in a new area on land

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that was an tame hell of opportunity where
they would build schools educate their

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children reclaim the desert their own
physicians took precautions to guard against

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epidemics.

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They opened advanced Americanization classes
for college students who in turn would

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instruct other groups. They made a
rough beginning of self-government.

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While the army would guard the outer
limits of each area community life

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and security with them were largely up
to the Japanese themselves they admitted

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they saw the need for developing civic
leaders at weekly community meetings

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citations were given to the block leaders
who had worked most diligently special

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emphasis was put on the health

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and care of these American
children of Japanese descent

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their parents. Most of
whom are American citizens

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and their grandparents who are at Liam's
middle they want to go to work at Manton

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Are they don't live out and began
reading quietly cutting the plants

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when the tour will add
to our rubber supplies.

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At Parker they undertook the air a
geisha in Africa that your client.

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Meanwhile in areas away from the coast

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and under appropriate safeguards many were
permitted to enter private employment

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particularly to work in sugar the
fields where labor was badly needed.

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Now this great picture is
actually a lot to a story

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that has yet to be told the
Post story will begin to unfold

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when the lands of the desert turn green.

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When all adult hands aren't
productive work on public land

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or in private employment.

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It will be folly come home

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when circumstances permit the line of
American citizens once again to enjoy the

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freedom we in this country cherish

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and find the disloyal we hope have left
this country for good in the meantime we're

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setting a standard for the rest of the
world in the treatment of people who may

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have loyalties to an enemy nation we are
protecting ourselves without violating the

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principles of Christian Dixon's without
change the fundamental decency no matter

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what our enemies do but of
course we hope most earnestly

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that our example will
influence the Axis powers

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and their treatment of Americans
who fall into their hands.